Brian LaMacchia

Brian A. LaMacchia is a computer security specialist.[1]

LaMacchia is currently the Executive Director of the MPC Alliance.[2] LaMacchia was previously [3] a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft and headed the Security and Cryptography team within Microsoft Research (MSR). His team’s main project was the development of quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms and protocols. Brian was also a founding member of the Microsoft Cryptography Review Board and consulted on security and cryptography architectures, protocols, and implementations across the company; previously, he was the Director of Security and Cryptography in the Microsoft Extreme Computing Group. He played a leading role in the design of XKMS, the security architecture for .NET and Palladium. He designed and led the development team for the .NET security architecture. He was a security architect on Palladium. LaMacchia was originally well known for his work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, establishing the MIT PGP Key Server, the first key-centric PKI implementation to see wide-scale use. LaMacchia wrote the first Web interface for a PGP Key Server. He is a submitter of the Frodo post-quantum proposal[4] to the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization[5] project.

His leadership has also been recognized by his membership in the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council.[6]

He has played a leading role in the design of W3C XMLDsig and XKMS standards. In particular, he is an author of versions 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 XMLDsig. He is a contributor to XKMS. He is a coauthor on the OASIS standard WS-SECURITY.

LaMacchia earned S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively.

As of 2024, LaMacchia is serving his third three-year term as Treasurer of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.[7] He first joined the IACR Board of Directors in 2015 as General Chair of CRYPTO 2016.[8] LaMacchia also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Seattle Opera.[9] He previously served for ten years as member of the board of directors of the Seattle International Film Festival, including the 2015-2016 term as president of SIFF.

References

  1. ↑ Lehtinen, Rick; Russell, Deborah; Gangemi, G. T. (2006-06-20). Computer Security Basics. O'Reilly Media, Inc. pp. 179–. ISBN 9780596006693. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "MPC Alliance | LinkedIn".
  3. ↑ "Brian LaMacchia - MPC Alliance | LinkedIn". Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  4. ↑ "FrodoKEM". frodokem.org. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  5. ↑ Computer Security Division, Information Technology Laboratory (2017-01-03). "Post-Quantum Cryptography | CSRC | CSRC". CSRC | NIST. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  6. ↑ "Council Members - CCC". Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  7. ↑ "International Association for Cryptologic Research". www.iacr.org. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  8. ↑ "CRYPTO 2016". www.iacr.org. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
  9. ↑ "Seattle Opera - Board of Directors". www.seattleopera.org. Retrieved 2021-02-18.


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